QUITTIN' TIME
(by Robb Royer & Roger Linn;
performed by Mary-Chapin Carpenter)
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Okay, a couple notes about this song. First of all, the electric guitar
plays this song in D, and Mary-Chapin plays the acoustic guitar in C, capoed
up two frets (as I've written it here).
Don't worry too much about the bass notes in the chorus; they were just
so obvious I had to put them in.
The little riff at the end of the C Fmaj7 G G lines (after "tell me what
we're gonna do") is just --, --. Finger as 320003,
and use your index finger to do the first fret on the B string. (Of course,
it's Asus4-Asus4-A if you play it in D.)
Each chord is half a measure. Capo 2.
One more thing: in her 1994 Acoustic Tour, MCC performed a slowed-down
version of this song. The chords were pretty much the same, but it was
finger-picked instead of strummed, and there was an E or E7 chord between
the G and Am, right before "But you pretend..." Try it.
[intro]
Hey baby, tell me what we're gonna do
It's getting crazy and I need some help from you
We were so connected that you were a part of me
Now I feel an emptiness right to the heart of me
/E
But you pretend and I pretend that everything is fine
And though we should be at an end
(2/4)
It's so hard admittin' when it's quittin' time
(4/4)
[instrumental]
Hey baby, I'm running out of things to say ( )
Please don't hate me, this feeling just won't go away ( )
Now we're spending all our time caught in fantasy ( )
Just trying to keep in mind the way it used to be ( )
[Chorus]
[Guitar solo, same chords as chorus]
[Repeat second verse]
But you pretend and I pretend that everything is fine ( )
And though we should be at an end ( )
It's so hard admittin' when it's quittin' time (Am F G C)
But you pretend and I pretend that everything is fine ( )
And though we should be at an end ( )
It's so hard admittin' when it's quittin'... (Am F G)
(So hard admittin' when it's quittin'...) (Am F G)
So hard admittin' when it's quittin' time ( )